2023-2024 Catalog

Women's and Gender Studies Minor

Women's and Gender Studies Minor Requirements: 5 courses, 20 credits

Core Requirement (1 course, 4 credits)

Choose one of the following:

WGS-111Women, History, and Culture

4

WGS-113Women, Science, and Society

4

WGS-115Introduction to Gender Studies

4

Electives (4 courses, 16 credits)

Choose four of the following courses, with no more than two from any single department except Women's and Gender Studies (WGS). Students who have taken WGS-111 or WGS-113 may take WGS-115 as one of their four elective courses for the WGS minor.

ADPR-217Gay and Lesbian Studies

4

ARH-205Gender, Class and Alterity in Ancient and Medieval Art

4

CJU-230Bad Girls?

4

CJN-232Gender, Sexuality, and Communication

4

CJU-275Women and Crime

4

CJU-331Violence Against Women

4

ENG-158Nasty Women and Unruly Voices in American Literature

4

ENG-161Writing the American West

4

ENG-313Sex and Power in the Middle Ages

4

ENG-348Jane Austen

4

ENG-356Whitman and Dickinson

4

ENG-387Writing Women

4

ENG-412Women in Classical Antiquity

4

HST-275Women in 20th-Century Europe

4

HST-371U.S. Women's History Colonial to 1865

4

HST-465Monumental Women: Female Public Space

4

LAWU-280Domestic Violence, Abuse and Neglect

4

LAWU-310Gender, Sexuality, and the Law

4

PHIL-228Feminist Philosophy

4

PHIL-229Eco-Feminism

4

PHIL-251Philosophy of Race & Gender

4

PHIL-265Women in Spirituality

4

POLS-306Public Policy and Marginalized Groups

4

POLS-307Globalization of Gender Politics

4

PSYCH-222Human Sexuality

4

SF-1180Rebel Girls and Nasty Women

4

SOC-273Women in Contemporary Society

4

SOC-276Sex and Society

4

SOC-303Native Women's Health

4

SOC-355Women and Health

4

WGS-211Heroines, Hotties & Hubris: Adolescent Girl's Books

4

WGS-220Other Worlds, Other Genders: Women and Science Fiction

4

WGS-225From Prophetess to Poetess: African Women Since 1800

4

WGS-228Feminism in Film & Fiction

4

WGS-230Bad Boys: Representations of Masculinity In Popular Culture

4

WGS-235Gender and Sexuality in Visual Culture

4

WGS-240Feminist Literature

4

WGS-311Engendering Entertainment: Feminism and Popular Culture

4

WGS-315Feminist Thought

4

WGS-325Global Women's Fiction

4

WGS-330Furies to Femi-Nazis: A History of Modern Anti-Feminism

4

WGS-335Queer Narratives

4

WGS-338Re-Imagine the World: Transnational Feminism in Film

4

WGS-340Women on Stage

4

WGS Track Courses

Some CAS courses can be taken to fulfill the WGS minor by registering for the optional WGS track of that course. Students who register for this track and complete the required WGS readings and assignments may count a maximum number of one of these courses toward the minor in Women's and Gender Studies. In order to register for the WGS track of a listed course, students should consult the instructor and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies program by the second week of class.

CJN-255Introduction to Media

4

ENG-162Shakespeare From Stage to Screen

4

ENG-266"Mad Men:" Reading Visual Narratives

4

ENG-340Readings in Decadent Literature

4

ENG-392Readings in Post-Colonial Literature

4

ENG-409Literary Bloomsbury: Woolf and Forster

4

PSYCH-219SL-Psychology of Trauma

4

SOC-256Sociology of Aging

4

Advanced Topics

Students may wish to include specialized research and/or an internship as part of their minor program. They may do so by completing the following course under the supervision of the program director or a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Committee:

WGS-510Independent Study

4

Residency Requirement Policy: In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.

Minor Programs Policy: A student declaring a minor may use no more than two courses from a major or double major combination to fulfill the requirements for the minor. No more than one course from one minor may count toward the fulfillment of a second minor. Students may not minor in a subject in which they are also completing a major. For more information, see the Minor Programs section of the CAS Degree Requirements page.

About the Women's and Gender Studies Minor

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